TWO SPECIES. 



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to their account, differs somewhat in colour and size from 

 the Fj all-lemming, and this they call the Skogs or Wood- 

 Lemming. The supposed new species is believed by some 

 to be a recent importation from Northern Russia, by the way 

 of Finland. 



THE LEMMING. 



Be this as it may, the Fjall-lemming, the species of which 

 I speak, and numbers of which I myself met with when 

 wandering on the Dovre and others of the Norwegian moun- 

 tains, is about five inches in length, with round small ears, 

 and long black whiskers ; the belly of a whitish-yellow ; the 

 back and sides tawny, variegated with black ; the tail an inch 

 in length ; the feet five-toed ; the upper lip divided ; and 

 with two teeth in each jaw. 



The favourite haunts of the lemming would seem to be 



